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| | DPT Vaccine Side Effects Lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The DPT vaccine may cause serious side effects such as an allergic reaction, prolonged seizure, decrease in consciousness, acute encephalopathy (short-term brain damage), acute neurologic illness, chronic brain dysfunction (long-term brain damage), or even death. |
 | | "The well-known side-effects of the old DPT vaccines that make some parents fearful of vaccinating their children are almost always caused by the pertussis (whooping cough) component," said Dr. David Scheifele, director of the Vaccine Evaluation Centre at Children's Hospital in Vancouver. |
 | | Kathleen Stratton and her colleagues at the Institute of Medicine reported in 1994 the Diphtheria and Tetanus (DT) portions of the DPT cocktail had been causally related to anaphylactic reactions (severe allergic reactions), Guillain-Barre Syndrome (numbness of the extremities with severe forms producing various degrees of paralysis), and brachial neuritis (inflammation of the brachial nerve). |
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